Skyler looked at him for a moment. With his ordinary haircut and black baseball cap, he wasn’t as unruly as the rich young man she remembered, and a hundred thousand miles away from the overview she remembered of him.
Stephen looked her up and down: “Why are you looking at me, do I have flowers on my face?”
Skyler shook his head nicely and asked him seriously, “I’ve been having a problem like asking you for confirmation … but …”
Looking at her stammering look, Stephen waved his hand in a dashing four-letter word from his mouth, “But say no harm!”
“You must have been a lot different than you are now.” The words sounded like a question, but coming from Skyler’s mouth, they carried some certainty. It’s also true that she had a brief exchange with him through email back then, so she must have been familiar with his character and deeds back then.
Stephen didn’t answer him directly, but took a turn: “Well … don’t you know? I think you must know more than I do.”
Skyler, however, sighed: “Alas, people say hearing is not believing, seeing is believing, but the you I see now is completely different from the you I heard from others at that time!”
Four eyes met, there was a momentary collision, Skyler continued, “To say the least you may not believe it, even I’m a little confused now, I don’t know which one to believe …”
“At least at the time, you chose to trust someone else.” Stephen’s voice was a little choked.
Skyler slapped him hard, “Hey! You’re not still upset about my refusal to marry, are you?”
Stephen’s greatest virtue is that he never knows what’s right and wrong. Straightforward as Stephen, he said without a moment’s hesitation, “Of course, such an important thing, I must remember it for the rest of my life!”
Skyler looked a little hopeless: “You’re so vindictive.”
Stephen laughed: “What do you mean by holding a grudge, I don’t hate you now …” Maybe I hated you before when I didn’t officially meet you, at least not now, Stephen thought in his mind.
He looked at Skyler, who had a hopeless face at him, and continued, “On the contrary, I had been very grateful that you had refused the marriage at that time, and if you had not, I might have seen me now, or an uncompromising fop.”
“If there is no rejection …,” Skyler murmured and repeated, “then we are now … ” Halfway through the sentence, she suddenly felt wrong and stopped her mouth in a hurry.
Stephen’s interest in molesting her came up, and he smiled a flirtatious and teasing smile, “What’s …?”
Skyler nudged his shoulder and hurried back to her driver’s seat, Stephen was still standing outside and found it very amusing to watch her puffed up face.
“My office is very close to here, do you want to check it out?”
Skyler restarted her car as Stephen shouted a little louder from outside, “There are still good hot drinks being served, don’t miss out!”
Skyler was amused by his bark and couldn’t hold back a laugh: “I don’t know where your office is, lead the way!”
The two cars just drove out of the lane one after the other.
Within the Kirkland Group.
“Come in.” Leon buried himself in a pile of papers and never looked up, at the moment he couldn’t care less who knocked on the door and came in, just shouted come in and went back to work.
Brayden deliberately lightened his footsteps, but the two men were so familiar that Leon knew who had entered without looking up, and without looking up he said, “Boss, what are you doing here?”
Brayden replied to him, “I should be asking you that.”
See Leon some confusion buried in the file head up, Brayden only just continued to say: “I told Skyler not to come over, this period of time you are so busy, of course, to rest.”
Turning his eyes to see Leon’s eyes darken a bit, Brayden wisely asked, “She didn’t tell you, did she?”
Thanks to Leon at this time can still think about not to worry about others, he hastened to give Skyler cover: “No, she has spoken, it is I must come, we can help you share a little is a little …”
Brayden lightly grunted: “Come on, we have so many years of relationship, I still do not know you, honestly, why do you and she quarrel ah, what is the big deal between husband and wife?”
“It’s really nothing … just somehow tired of being together, and she and I are no longer as carefree as we used to be.” Leon’s tone was sad, and again tried to be in control of his emotions to keep it from exploding in front of Brayden.
Brayden did not know how to comfort him for a while, although he also knew that friction between couples is normal, in Dolly and Jayden have all sorts of indefinable contact, he also did not have any tired feeling, more is feeling angry only.
No, the two are completely different, Brayden thought for a moment and said slowly: “I should also be considered a person who has come through, when I was so decadent, it was you and Skyler who pulled me back from the abyss of decadence, how can you not get through it?”
Brayden was sorting through the mess of papers on his desk when suddenly Leon’s words scared him almost to the point where he couldn’t even hold the folder in his hand.
“Boss, what does divorce stand for …”
Brayden looked stunned and said angrily, “What’s wrong with you, a good day to think about these nerve-wracking things.”
Leon saw him angry hurriedly to his own defense: “No, boss, I just asked, these, I never thought …”
“It’s best if you don’t think about it, if you do, I’ll break your legs!” Brayden knew he saw himself as an older brother, his father was not with him anymore in the early years, for his words, he believed Leon still cared a few.
But he still explained to him, “Divorce is the end point of a relationship, but also the starting point of two different lives, after the divorce, the two people do not owe each other, the form of strangers.”
Leon listened to the chill down his back, as if he had not been so afraid to go to war, with gut-wrenching, creepy the words are not enough to summarize his heart’s feelings.
“You have to know that even if Dolly and I had more misunderstandings and she and I were angry with each other, we never thought about the word divorce, which is too serious a word for either of us to take …”
Leon waved his hand: “I just asked, but never thought, boss, where did you go, I and she, just some small conflicts, I believe that after talking about it will be good.”